The Anglican Church of St Bartholomew at

Winstone Winstone is a village and civil parish in the English county of Gloucestershire. The population taken at the 2011 census was 270. Winstone forms part of the Cotswold District. The Anglican Church of St Bartholomew was built in the 11th cen ...

in the

Cotswold District Cotswold is a local government district in Gloucestershire, England. It is named after the wider Cotswolds region and range of hills. The council is based in the district's largest town of Cirencester. The district also includes the towns of ...

Gloucestershire Gloucestershire ( , ; abbreviated Glos.) is a Ceremonial counties of England, ceremonial county in South West England. It is bordered by Herefordshire to the north-west, Worcestershire to the north, Warwickshire to the north-east, Oxfordshire ...

, England, was built in the 11th century. It is a grade I

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History

The

nave The nave () is the central part of a church, stretching from the (normally western) main entrance or rear wall, to the transepts, or in a church without transepts, to the chancel. When a church contains side aisles, as in a basilica-type ...

was built in the 11th century with the south porch being added in the 14th and the tower in the 15th. In 1876 the church underwent

Victorian restoration The Victorian restoration was the widespread and extensive wikt:refurbish, refurbishment and rebuilding of Church of England church (building), churches and cathedrals that took place in England and Wales during the 19th-century Victorian era, re ...

by Frederick S. Waller and further restoration was carried out in the 1950s and 1960s. The parish is part of a

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centred on

Brimpsfield Brimpsfield is a village and civil parish in the Cotswold district, in the county of Gloucestershire, England. The village is recorded in Domesday Book as ''Brimesfelde''. Brimpsfield Castle was built in the village during the Norman period. ...

within the

Diocese of Gloucester The Diocese of Gloucester is a Church of England diocese based in Gloucester, covering the non-metropolitan county of Gloucestershire. The cathedral is Gloucester Cathedral and the bishop is the Bishop of Gloucester. It is part of the Province ...

Architecture

The

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building has a stone slate roof. It consists of a

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, south porch and a north vestry. The two-stage saddleback west tower has six bells including one dating from 1320. An

Anglo-Saxon The Anglo-Saxons, in some contexts simply called Saxons or the English, were a Cultural identity, cultural group who spoke Old English and inhabited much of what is now England and south-eastern Scotland in the Early Middle Ages. They traced t ...

door, with a tympanum over it, is now blocked up. Inside the church is a 15th-century octagonal

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References

{{reflist Church of England church buildings in Gloucestershire Grade I listed churches in Gloucestershire